Description: An image video for PAGANI, an eyewear brand based in Italy. We created animation for David Taveras’s poem/story, which depicts a journey of finding a vision and rediscovering oneself after having lost sight of it. Thinking through what kind of animation to pair with the English text was both a very difficult and enjoyable process. The animation was produced not only with paper cutouts, but also by incorporating paper-based 3D forms, prints of live-action footage, light and shadows from a projector, and the intense sunlight of midsummer into the filming process.

Music video for Nakaura Yuri’s “Seishun Ojiisan” Created using a combination of cut-paper and collage techniques

Description: “Scuffin” refers to the lines etched into a bottle through repeated use. A returnable bottle requires the extra step of being returned in order to be used again. This is the story of a bottle journeying around the earth, marked with “scuffin” as proof that someone returned it. A web movie for Pocari Sweat’s returnable bottle. The scenes in which the bottle glows were filmed by shining projector light onto cut-paper artwork.

Two people decide to go to the home of a friend who says they live in Guragura. The journey is long, and the bus does not reach Butsumisaki until nightfall. An animated film made using paper-cutout animation